Welcome to the web site of the Trilateral Commission. The Commission was originally created in 1973 to bring together experienced leaders within the private sector to discuss issues of global concern at a time when communication and cooperation between Europe, North America, and Asia were lacking. The Commission has grown since its early days to include members from more countries in these regions, and it continues to find that study and dialogue about the pressing problems facing our planet remain as important today as in 1973. Problems and threats have changed, but their importance has only increased due to the more interconnected and interdependent world in which we now live.

Although we are a small group, and meet only a few times each year, we see great value in a web site that offers scholars, researchers, and the general public access to our proceedings and the major reports submitted during our meetings. We also offer links to the writings of our membership and their individual views on issues of concern, and we provide some basic information about the Commission, its history, and activities. We have also begun to present short video interviews and other information connected to our meetings.

The first video pieces relate to a panel discussion on the threat of drug cartels in the NAFTA zone held during the 2011 North American Regional Meeting in Toronto. To view them, just click on the names below: 
Paula Dobriansky, former U.S. under secretary of state for democracy and global affairs 
John Negroponte, former U.S. ambassador to Honduras and Mexico 
Jean Daudelin, assistant professor, Carleton University
Jorge Tello, former executive secretary of Mexico’s National Public Security System.

We also present here a compilation of essays on "Europe's Response to the Arab Awakening" which will be of interest to many of you. These essays were prepared by five European members of the Commission for the recent European Regional Meeting in The Hague. Click here to read their views of this significant turn in current affairs.

With best wishes for the coming new year,

 

Mario Monti	Joseph S. Nye, Jr.	Yotaro Kobayashi
European Chair	North American Chair	Pacific Asian Chair